>yfw the 360 didn't even support wifi without a $100 dongle
I forget if these were to cut costs or if Microwiener thought the majority of people were still using CRTs and E-LAN I mean at the time they were right about that, but everybody was upgrading only a couple years later
The 360 was massively rushed to get a head start over Sony. It was barely a 7th gen console at launch because of it, no wifi, no HDD, no HDMI, no anything.
it came with AV/component. why should a 720p console use hdmi? the reason ps3 used hdmi is because it had a blu ray drive that could play 1080p movies. even ps3 was 720p as a console.
What was the purpose of the thing that plugged into the back of tv back when I was young that had a switcher thing between tv and video game? why was that needed?
I remember when I got component cables for my PS2 then being completely blown away by how much better they look.
Composite is such shit, no colors, image looks like washed out shit.
I at one point owned an original nintendo component cable for gamecube, wish I had kept it because those go for hundreds of bucks these days.
You must have been blind because PS2 looked pretty bad in higher resolutions. Xbox and GameCube were both pretty impressive on some games but I don’t remember anything that supported it actually looking better on ps2.
Never had that, but I did have to ask dad to put in the "bottle cap" every time I wanted to play Super Nintendo, and he always complained because "there's only one input on the tv and I'm already using it for the cable!"
Pretty sure it just acted as an antenna for the TVs digital tuner. But the irony of getting that picture out of the worst possible cable to use with a Nintendo.
>the red one that broke off for some reason
bruh is that an analog cable??? im shaking rn fr
>Composite instead of component
You never experienced the true graphics of old consoles.
I'm all for better cables if you're retro gaymen nowadays but don't act like composite wasn't what the overwhelming majority experiencied.
I played on S-Video. Close enough.
What's up with your scart connector?
analog cable, next
They probably don't even know what an HDMI cable is, you just remote cast stuff from your phone now.
for me its svideo or component
>yfw OG xbox came with AV cables instead of HDMI
The fricking 360 didnt come with a hdmi PORT at launch never mind a hdmi cable.
>yfw the 360 didn't even support wifi without a $100 dongle
I forget if these were to cut costs or if Microwiener thought the majority of people were still using CRTs and E-LAN I mean at the time they were right about that, but everybody was upgrading only a couple years later
The 360 was massively rushed to get a head start over Sony. It was barely a 7th gen console at launch because of it, no wifi, no HDD, no HDMI, no anything.
it came with AV/component. why should a 720p console use hdmi? the reason ps3 used hdmi is because it had a blu ray drive that could play 1080p movies. even ps3 was 720p as a console.
No it was composite only. You could buy compenent separately. Microsoft sold so many Black folk half a console
my 2006 console came with AV/component cable that had both.
Did you have to kne with the memory card?
no it was the original 20gb hard drive one.
HDMI didn't even exist in 2001 products, moron.
I have an HD TV that still takes them although I'd still prefer a crt
heh
>me face when I use to use a dvi to hdmi to hook my ps3 into my monitor
I can still hear the buzzing noise coming from my tv.
Zoomers are 1996-2012. Older ones definitely do.
Never forget that millennials think zoomers didn't watch kung fu Panda.
Probably the same millennials who'll say Minecraft isn't a zoomer game.
Red and white is audio while yellow is video
What was the purpose of the thing that plugged into the back of tv back when I was young that had a switcher thing between tv and video game? why was that needed?
to switch between tv and aux
Because that box connected to the same port that the TV also used to connect to the antenna or cable.
i only ever had this for one device and it was xbox
That's a ps1-3 composite + audio cable
t. zoomer
So PS2 is retro?
Zoomers were born in 1997 through 2010 OP, we know what composite cables are
I'm a '98 zoomer and I had a PS2 and also hand-me-down ps1 and N64 from my older cousins.
I didn't get a 360 until Christmas 2008. The first games I played were Lost Odyssey and Mass Effect.
eat a dick
>coax adapter
casual
>the little forks usually broke so i would have to splice the wires when i was like 4 years old to get it to work
>casual
I remember when I got component cables for my PS2 then being completely blown away by how much better they look.
Composite is such shit, no colors, image looks like washed out shit.
I at one point owned an original nintendo component cable for gamecube, wish I had kept it because those go for hundreds of bucks these days.
>no colors, image looks like washed out shit.
But that's the best part and where the SOVL is!!
Looks fine to me
You must have been blind because PS2 looked pretty bad in higher resolutions. Xbox and GameCube were both pretty impressive on some games but I don’t remember anything that supported it actually looking better on ps2.
the first game I tested with my component cable was San Andreas and the difference was huge.
Probably on an HDTV then. There wasn’t a single game for me that didnt look better on composite + sdtv.
Its funny how shit the launch 360 was. No hdmi port and you had to use the stupid memory card things and I think it didn't have wifi either.
i think i remember it having a fricking little antenna on it too lmao.
>OP thinks the wii isn't a zoomer console
homie, people born in 2009 are like 14 now
Good. Composite video sucks ass. Emulators are a superior way to play these games anyway.
t. grew up with a ps2
Yeah I do my Dada beat me with them
Post the coax splitter block.
as the only zoomer who grew up with all the old consoles, I can sadly say I know what those are.
Never had that, but I did have to ask dad to put in the "bottle cap" every time I wanted to play Super Nintendo, and he always complained because "there's only one input on the tv and I'm already using it for the cable!"
But the RF adapters had passthrough, so he was probably just lying so you wouldnt play video games.
looking at composite cables makes me want licorice
I had 3 of these and daisy chained them together. Blew my mind 10 years later when I could pick up 1080p OTA digital TV channels with them.
>Blew my mind 10 years later when I could pick up 1080p OTA digital TV channels with them.
I still don't get how that works.
Pretty sure it just acted as an antenna for the TVs digital tuner. But the irony of getting that picture out of the worst possible cable to use with a Nintendo.
It's the RGB for CRTV
I hate how tvs are phasing out component. You get a handful of hdmi ports and maybe one composite.
As much as I appreciate that some modern TVs still have composite output, I think they should've replaced it with component output.